The almost universal rejection of the notion of symbols as `carriers of meaning' has created the need to find an alternative for the use of models as embodiments of mathematical concepts.
Contributions by leading experts and others to understanding the crucial role of metacognition in relation to broad areas of education make this collection a uniquely stimulating book.
An important challenge for our world is to understand how cultural understanding and geographical education can be linked and used to improve the global society.
Geographers regard fieldwork as a vital instrument for understanding our world through direct experience, for gathering basic data about this world, and as a fundamental method for enacting geographical education.
Business education and business research has often been criticized by the business community, which claims that much of it is mainly directed at the establishment of teachers and researchers themselves, instead of distributing their knowledge to the business community.
Almost thirty years ago a friend involved in the education profession told me that in his estimation much more was "e;caught"e; by students outside of classrooms than was "e;taught"e; within those hallowed walls.
Like previous volumes in the "e;Educational Innovation in Economics and Business"e; series, this one is genuinely international in terms of its coverage.
Designing for Learning in Networked Learning Environments is of interest to researchers and students, designers, educators, and industrial trainers across various disciplines including education, cognitive, social and educational psychology, didactics, computer science, linguistics and semiotics, speech communication, anthropology, sociology and design.
We are pleased to present the ESERA 2001 Conference book, which is based on contributions submitted and presented to the Third International Conference "e;Science Education Research in the Knowledge Based Society"e; that was organised by the Department of Primary Education of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and held in Thessaloniki from August 21 to August 26, 2001.
This volume presents a "e;photograph"e; of the state of the art in Science Education Research in Europe as it has emerged from the first ESERA Conference held in Rome in September 1997.
The system of vocational and adult education and training in Europe offers young people and adults the opportunity to learn to play an effective part in the workplace and elsewhere in society.
The theme of "e;Learning in a Changing Environment"e; reflects the way in which educational thinking in Higher Education has undergone a rapid change throughout the world.
Behavioral and cognitive development is considered here as an ordered change in an individual throughout his or her lifespan, and not as sets of individual differences between persons, nor as stage-like progressions.
Recent developments in telecommunications have led to new developments in tele-services, particularly tele-health and tele-education, for the benefit of those living in either the developed world or the less developed world.
Promoting high standards in education while striving for equal opportunities under the budget constraints - these are the new global objectives of education systems.
This special issue of the International Review of Education includes contri- butions on indigenous knowledge, the cultural context of learning and on the interplay between the so-called "e;traditional"e; and "e;modern"e; ways of educa- tion.
When considering future trends in educational and vocational orientation we must constantly bear in mind, in as concrete a way as possible, that schools form an integral part of society as a whole.
Research on teaching in higher education shows that students who are well taught learn more than students who are poorly taught, and there are some teaching behaviors and strategies that are consistently associated with good teaching.
Models and modelling play a central role in the nature of science, in its conduct, in the accreditation and dissemination of its outcomes, as well as forming a bridge to technology.
Research on teacher thinking, beliefs and knowledge in higher education Increasingly serious attention is being paid to the quality of learning and teaching in higher education.
In a brief summary, the debate concerning the nature of writing processes is about whether the essential characteristic of expertise in writing is a matter of mastering problem-solving strategies.
In the future a more competent workforce will be required as workers will have to acquire the competence to predict and deal with novel situations at work.
Parasitic weeds of the families Cuscutaceae, Orobanchaceae and Scrophulariaceae are considered to be among the major problems facing agriculture in the Tropics and Subtropics.
The persistently increasing scale and complexity of government, of quasi- public organizations, and of private organizations pose many problems in the economics of collective choice.
The rich and diverse contributions to this volume span a wide variety of disciplines, from psychology and philosophy to neuroscience, by some of the most influential scholars in the emerging science of personal wisdom.
This volume presents evidence about how we understand communication in changing times, and proposes that such understandings may contribute to the development of pedagogy for teaching and learning.
This book addresses a very important aspect of science education and science education research respectively: The research-based development of Teaching Learning Sequences.
This book offers valuable guidance for science teacher educators looking for ways to facilitate preservice and inservice teachers' pedagogy relative to teaching students from underrepresented and underserved populations in the science classroom.
Incorporating both theoretical and practical perspectives, this volume of papers explores varied aspects of peer review of teaching in higher education.
